EMGT 6225 — Economic Decision Making
4 semester hoursGraduateLectureusually offered: fall, spring, summerBostonOnlineOnlineTraditional
Explores economic modeling and analysis techniques for selecting alternatives from potential solutions to an engineering problem. Considers measures of merit, such as present worth, annual worth, rate of return, and benefit/cost techniques. Examines recent techniques of economic analysis, especially the tools of decision making. Explores decisions under uncertainty. Studies the causes of risk and uncertainty, and examines ways to change and influence the degree of risk and uncertainty through sensitivity analysis, expectation-variance criterion, decision tree analysis, statistical decision techniques, and multiple attribute decision making through group case studies.
Offering history
| Term | Sections | Enrolled | Capacity | Full | Open seats/section |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Summer B 2023 | 2 | 41 | 84 | 49% | 21.5 |
| Fall 2023 | 4 | 184 | 205 | 90% | 5.3 |
| Spring 2024 | 4 | 183 | 204 | 90% | 5.3 |
| Summer A 2024 | 2 | 69 | 97 | 71% | 14.0 |
| Summer B 2024 | 2 | 67 | 99 | 68% | 16.0 |
| Fall 2024 | 4 | 132 | 203 | 65% | 17.8 |
| Spring 2025 | 4 | 120 | 185 | 65% | 16.3 |
| Summer A 2025 | 1 | 48 | 50 | 96% | 2.0 |
| Summer B 2025 | 2 | 67 | 97 | 69% | 15.0 |
| Fall 2025 | 3 | 79 | 132 | 60% | 17.7 |
| Spring 2026 | 3 | 75 | 115 | 65% | 13.3 |
Snapshots from scheduled scrapes — not live seat availability. "Full" can exceed 100% when sections over-enroll.
Meeting times
Share of recent sections by weekday: M 29% · T 16% · W 12% · Th 21% · F 3%
Common patterns: async (42% of sections), M (21% of sections), R (9% of sections), W (8% of sections), T (5% of sections), MR (5% of sections) — in patterns, R means Thursday
Professors
Fall
- Mohammad Mohammad Dehghani Dehghani (33% of students) · reviews
- Manish Ranjit (25% of students) · reviews
- Shiaoming Shi (19% of students) · reviews
- Himlona Palikhe (9% of students) · reviews
Spring
- Manish Ranjit (39% of students) · reviews
- Mohammad Mohammad Dehghani Dehghani (37% of students) · reviews
- Shiaoming Shi (13% of students) · reviews
- Babak Heydari (11% of students) · reviews
Summer A
- Mohammad Mohammad Dehghani Dehghani (83% of students) · reviews
- Manish Ranjit (17% of students) · reviews
Summer B
- Mohammad Mohammad Dehghani Dehghani (67% of students) · reviews
- Babak Heydari (20% of students) · reviews
- Shiaoming Shi (13% of students) · reviews
Percentages are each professor's average share of the season's enrolled students in recent terms.
Links
Official catalog (EMGT course descriptions) · Student reviews on RateMyHusky · All EMGT courses · Plan it at numap.app